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The process is the message

Intermedia compositions are artistic settings that do not aspire to exact reproduction, but offer the potential for precise interpretation as a constant process. The spatial scores of the Son-Icon, and the Interaction Notation (IAN) enable collaboration on equal terms, and continuous development for all participants. (See also Son-Icons-Visual Music).

Often, however, the processes are already underway. Through artistic translations, these become visible and audible in several dimensions: the rising of the tides in the Atlantic, the melting and retreat of the Rhône glacier, approaching the simplest of creatures such as plankton, etc. These projects have their own timescales, dramaturgies, and sequences. Often there are projects that have lasted for more than a decade or until today.


Long-term project in the Rhône Glacier

Work in Process since 1998

The tunnel, which is driven into the ice every year, becomes a sounding board for the solo performances. Year after year, it shortens by a few metres. The melting of the glacier becomes audible. Annual performances at the Rhône Glacier and world premiere at the Tage für Neue Musik Zürich 1998.
CD-dvd MauerRaum WandRaum  

The Vanishing Blue: Son-Icons are painted live with water and then evaporate and disappear during the performance. Disappearance becomes a sensory experience.
Premiere: Staatsoper Stuttgart March 2020


In the Tides of the Atlantic

Work in Process 2005-2010

The body becomes lighter and lighter, the movements need more and more strength, the energy of the rising Atlantic waters pulls into the distance. This five-hour performance for voice and viola is an uplifting experience and the basis for the solo CD Slipway to Galaxies.


Approach to Daphnia Magna

Cross-Science Project 2006-2008

Daphnia Magna are extremely sensitive to environmental influences and have an almost inexhaustible repertoire of movements. Studies of underwater acoustic pollution indicate that plankton demonstrate increasingly aggressive and self-destructive behaviour. In this cross-science project with biologist Dr Michael Grüter, Hug has played a wide variety of oscillating, pulsating sounds for the daphnia with her viola over several years. These sounds are transmitted into the water via highly sensitive sound transmitters and animate the tiny creatures to perform water somersaults and a wide variety of ‘dances’. The reactions of the daphnia in turn influence the music.